Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lindsay Utz | Michelle Walshe
Diane says: :Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is on a book tour for her memoir -and- is hitting movie screens in a just-released doc. Much of PRIME MINISTER’s footage was shot by her partner Clarke, who couldn’t keep
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joshua Erkman
Starring: Ashley Smith | David Yow | Kai Lennox | Ray Sherman | Sarah Lind
Jeff says: “Alex Clark (Kai Lennox) is a formerly renowned documentary photographer. He produced, long ago, a handsome coffee table book featuring stark, black and white portraits of derelict military bases, abandoned subdivisions, crumbling warehouses, and seedy motels set amid
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Constance Tsang
Starring: Damien Brown | Haipeng Xu | Kang-sheng Lee | Ke-Xi Wu | Yvonne YF Chan
Michael says: “Low-key and understated, but writer/director Constance Tsang’s debut feature, packs a strong emotional punch. The film features a lengthy prologue that leads you to believe that one character is the lead, then switches after a surprising turn of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Leonardo Van Dijl
Starring: Alyssa Lorette | Grace Biot | Luca de Maar | Noah Lecloux | Tessa Van den Broeck
Diane says: “This Belgian film, a very quiet counterpart to 2020’s SLALOM, is about an athlete pushed hard by a coach where boundaries may not be respected. Julie (Tessa Van den Broeck) is an exceptional tennis player, on scholarship at
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Minh Quy Truong
Starring: Duy Bao Dinh Dao | Ho Lan Le | Thanh Hai Pham | Thi Nga Nguyen | Viet Tung Le
Chris says: “Almost a tone poem in its slower-than-Tsai Ming-liang pace, it’s often as if viewing a familiar world through foreign eyes with its arresting but rarely “pretty” imagery. Requires a second watch but one I’ll be eager to make.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Braverman
Diane says: “‘Is this for real?’ That’s the most common response to any of Andy Kaufman’s acts. And that’s one of the questions that the doc THANK YOU VERY MUCH wants to answer. The other is, who was Andy Kaufman
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fleur Fortune
Starring: Alicia Vikander | Charlotte Ritchie | Elizabeth Olsen | Himesh Patel | Indira Varma
Adam says: “Extremely GATTACA-coded (complimentary). 4 cats“
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Rating: 3.625 cats | 4 cats
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Chris says: “Where to begin with PAVEMENTS? Is it a vehicle meant to document the famed 1990s indie-rock quintet Pavement as they reunite and rehearse for a 2022 tour? A biopic of the band casting the likes of Joe Keery
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tracie Laymon
Starring: Barbie Ferreira | French Stewart | John Leguizamo | Lauren 'Lolo' Spencer | Rachel Bay Jones
Diane says: “My movie companion turned to me at the end of BOB TREVINO LIKES IT and said, ‘Maybe cinephiles would find some flaws in this movie, but it was just perfect.’ “So I won’t mention the occasional clunky dialogue.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Isaiah Saxon
Starring: Emily Watson | Finn Wolfhard | Helena Zengel | Razvan Stoica | Willem Dafoe
Laks says: “THE LEGEND OF OCHI follows the story of Yuri, who is dressed in a bright yellow puffy jacket and begins with her hunting with her father and many brothers. We soon learn that they are hunting the Ochi
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